Nearly 30 years ago, in 1996, Columbia University hosted a conference called, “The Fight for America’s Future: A Teach-in with the Labor Movement.” Speakers included the feminist activist Betty Friedan, historian Robin Kelley, and scholar Cornel West. John Sweeney, who had recently been elected president of the AFL-CIO, was also in attendance. Sweeney’s election was seen as a watershed moment for organized labor; per The New York Times, it signaled “a sharp turn toward militancy” and “moving wom
Most people in South Texas have long voted reliably blue. But this election cycle, there are three conservative Latina candidates vying to transform the politics here and turn the region red.
Latina Republican Mayra Flores’ historic win in a Texas congressional district in the Rio Grande Valley was greeted by the Times not with celebration but bitterness and denial. This is the same newspaper that loves to mark such supposed ethnic milestones on the Democratic side, as shown in the nauseating tributes to Sen.
On Wednesday, The New York Times published Jennifer Medina's piece on Rep. Mayra Flores, highlighting her as "The Rise of the Far-Right Latina." The piece isn't just as bad as
The purpose of yesterday’s disgusting New York Times hit job on Texas congressional candidates Cassy García, Mónica de la Cruz, and Congresswoman Mayra Flores (R-TX34), titled “The Rise of the Far-Right Latina”, was to signal them as race-traitors to the rest of the Acela Media, and have that as the frame of how they are covered going forward. But such efforts are not likely to succeed.